Register-based follow-up of social benefits and other transfer payments: accuracy and degree of completeness in a Danish interdepartmental administrative database compared with a population-based survey

The authors used theoretical models to organize the diverse unemployment literature, and meta-analytic techniques were used to examine the impact of unemployment on worker well-being across 104 empirical studies with 437 effect sizes...

Suicides associated with the 2008-10 economic recession in England: time trend analysis

Ben BarrDepartment of Public Health and Policy, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 3GB UKBMJ 345:e5142. 2012

..To determine whether English regions worst affected by the economic recession in the United Kingdom in 2008-10 have had the greatest increases in suicides...

Register-based follow-up of social benefits and other transfer payments: accuracy and degree of completeness in a Danish interdepartmental administrative database compared with a population-based survey

..Suicide risk was addressed in relation to the joint effect of factors regarding family structure, socioeconomics, demographics, mental illness, and family history of suicide and mental illness, as well as gender differences in risk factors...

..We aimed to review evidence on the relationship between temporary employment and health, and to see whether the association is dependent on outcome measure, instability of employment, and contextual factors...

Do high levels of unemployment influence the health of those who are not unemployed? A gendered comparison of young men and women during boom and recession

..Due to lower rates for early pension, gross income with time was lower in patients than controls. We conclude that multiple sclerosis seriously affects the economic life of multiple sclerosis patients, even within a few years of onset...

Employment transitions and mental health: an analysis from the British household panel survey

..the prevalence of substance use/disorders among the unemployed and employed, the impact of substance abuse on unemployment and vice versa, the effect of unemployment on alcohol/ drug addiction treatment and smoking cessation, and the ..

Sickness absence as a risk factor for job termination, unemployment, and disability pension among temporary and permanent employees

International research shows that there is a higher use of care among the unemployed than among the employed, although the findings on the association between unemployment and healthcare use are not conclusive.

Long-term unemployment and suicide: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Allison MilnerThe McCaughey Centre VicHealth Centre for the Promotion of Mental Health and Community Wellbeing, Melbourne School of Population Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, AustraliaPLoS ONE 8:e51333. 2013

There have been a number of reviews on the association+ between unemployment and suicide, but none have investigated how this relationship is influenced by duration of unemployment.

The influence of unemployment and adverse work conditions on the course of psychopathology after a mass disaster is unclear...

Unemployment and suicidal behavior in a New Zealand birth cohort: a fixed effects regression analysis

David M FergussonChristchurch Health and Development Study, Christchurch School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Christchurch, New ZealandCrisis 28:95-101. 2007

This study examined the association between exposure to unemployment and suicidal behaviors (suicidal ideation and attempted suicide) in a birth cohort of New Zealand young adults using fixed-effects logistic and Poisson regression models...

A number of different models have been used in order to explain the links between unemployment and ill-health. The objective of this study was to test different proposed models in an empirical setting.

Long-term unemployment among young people: the risk of social exclusion

..To assess the association between social situation and disease progression among patients diagnosed with HIV infection since the advent of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), taking late testing into account...

The effect of involuntary job loss on smoking intensity and relapse

Tracy FalbaDepartment of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 065208034, USAAddiction 100:1330-9. 2005

..The 3052 participants who were working at the initial wave and had any history of smoking comprise the main sample...

Unemployment and psychosocial adjustment in young adults: causation or selection?

This study investigates the relationships between unemployment following school leaving and psychosocial adjustment problems (mental health, substance use, crime, suicidal behaviours and teenage pregnancy) in a birth cohort of over 1000 ..

The ecological effect of unemployment on the incidence of very low birthweight in Norway and Sweden

Research often fails to ascertain whether men and women are equally hit by the health consequences of unemployment. The aim of this study was to analyze whether men's self-reported health and health behaviour were hit more by unemployment ..

Commentary: economic growth is the basis of mortality rate decline in the 20th century--experience of the United States 1901-2000

..the large epidemiological literature showing socioeconomic status to be inversely related to health status and unemployment associated with elevated morbidity and mortality rates...

Suicide mortality of young, middle-aged and elderly males and females in Japan for the years 1953-96: time series analysis for the effects of unemployment, female labour force, young and aged population, primary industry and population density

..of children's peer relationship problems at age 9 and their later risks of educational under-achievement and unemployment by the age of 18 years...

Cost-effectiveness of a participatory return-to-work intervention for temporary agency workers and unemployed workers sick-listed due to musculoskeletal disorders: design of a randomised controlled trial

Associations between area-level unemployment, body mass index, and risk factors for cardiovascular disease in an urban area

Ashley Isaac NaimiDepartment of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USAInt J Environ Res Public Health 6:3082-96. 2009

..It is also unclear whether the relationship between nSES and CVD varies according to sex. We sought to determine whether area-level unemployment (ALU) was associated with CVD risk, and whether this association differed by sex.

Job insecurity in white-collar workers: toward an explanation of associations with health

J E FerrieDepartment of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London Medical School, EnglandJ Occup Health Psychol 6:26-42. 2001

..Apart from a minor role for social support at work in both sexes and a modest role for job demands in women, adverse changes in these factors explain little of the job insecurity-health relationship...

..We test the effect of six alternative business cycle indicators on the mortality risk: the unemployment rate, the notification rate, the deviation from the GDP trend, the GDP change, the industry capacity ..

Assessing the contribution of unstable employment to mortality in posttransition Russia: prospective individual-level analyses from the Russian longitudinal monitoring survey

Paid work is related to health in complex ways, posing both risks and benefits. Unemployment is associated with poor health, but some jobs may still be worse than no job at all. This research investigates that possibility...

..To explore the associations between mother's and father's employment status separately and together and the subjective health of children; and how parental education and financial strain can modify these associations...

Hard times and hurtful partners: how financial strain affects depression and relationship satisfaction of unemployed persons and their spouses

..To determine the disability, distress and employment status of new neurology outpatients with physical symptoms unexplained by organic disease and to compare them with patients with symptoms explained by organic disease...

Macro determinants of cause-specific injury mortality in the OECD countries: an exploration of the importance of GDP and unemployment

I examined whether unemployment while looking for a job and being out of the labor force while not seeking work have distinct effects on symptoms of depression among young women and men in the United States...

Major depressive episode related to long unemployment and frequent alcohol intoxication

We studied the association between two major problems--unemployment and major depressive episode--and the impact of different timing of periods of unemployment and risk factors, especially alcohol intoxication, for major depressive ..

Coping with employment uncertainty: a comparison of employed and unemployed workers

The main purpose of this paper is to explore whether unemployment influences adolescents' subjective perception of health and whether perceived financial stress and social contacts can mediate the effect of employment status on health...

..therapy;and the interplay of crack cocaine use and associated co-occurring epidemics (mental health, poverty, unemployment and interpersonal violence with uptake of optimal antiretroviral therapy and engagement and retention in care...

..This population also copes with disproportionate stressors including economic disadvantage, unemployment, community violence, discrimination, and the long- term effects of historical cultural traumas and losses...

..and medical needs from both persistent deficits and problems that develop in later life, including increased risk of suicide, homelessness, unemployment, marital discord, neurodegenerative diseases, and reduced community participation.

..the impact of less ambient vitamin D on joint disease and bone health/density;and 4) the relationship between perceived ability to engage in activity, actual level of activity, unemployment due to disability, pain and quality of life.

..In addition it complies with the spirit of the Challenge Grant as it will necessitate the hiring of new employees, especially in Detroit, Michigan which suffers from the highest unemployment rate in the country.

..of years since marriage and time-varying measures of local macroeconomic conditions such as the state-level unemployment rate in each year and we will incorporate unobserved individual heterogeneity as in Heckman and Singer (1984)...

..by the National Federation of the Blind and others have shown that although as a group there is 70 percent unemployment among the blind, 80 percent of those blind people who are employed read braille...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal seeks funds to study the short-term effects of aggregate unemployment-particularly high unemployment resulting from the "Great Recession"-on family resources and child development...

..SAs), including MA and cocaine/crack are commonly used by homeless MSM, who contend with disorganized lives, unemployment, and little access to health and social services;thus, HBV vaccination is particularly challenging in this ..

..Young men aged 18-25 years in South Africa face the intersecting epidemics of HIV, alcohol and drug abuse, and unemployment. This R34 is designed to reduce young men's risk by addressing three problems with existing evidence-based ..

..children have learning disabilities and low IQs, leading to lower educational attainment, higher likelihood of unemployment, lower rates of marriage and parenthood and higher rates of divorce and interpersonal relationship problems...

..self-reported health, prevalence of comorbid medical conditions, psychological distress, and health-related unemployment. Analyses will be conducted using data from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), an annual in person ..

..additional effort by 4 faculty members at the WSU in the city of Detroit and the state of Michigan where the unemployment rate of 11.9% is the highest in the country. The job multiplicity factor for this region is 1...

..The tribal chiefs play a key role in community life in parallel with formal government authorities. The unemployment rate is about 45%. More than one third of the population age 15-34 years is HIV positive...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Schizophrenia is a devastating and costly mental illness with direct and unemployment costs approaching $95 billion per year. Cognitive impairments affect the majority of patients with schizophrenia...

..history pressing on American Indian families are reflected in research indicating weakened family connections, unemployment, poverty, isolation, and oppression, all of which can serve as powerful explanatory factors for a child's ..

..The trials and outcome studies found that epileptic seizures, serious cognitive difficulties, high unemployment, and inability to live independently are common among survivors of moderate or severe head injury the ongoing ..

..young, and also have data on such outcomes as completed education, occupational choice, income, employment and unemployment, location of residence, criminal activity, marriage and fertility, criminality, and more...

..and expand statewide, through established networks, to WI communities experiencing health disparities and unemployment. Aims will be achieved in mutually reinforcing way, embedded in established infrastructures, articulated with ..

..significant promise for reducing the disability, costs, poor quality of life, and social stigma associated with unemployment in SMI;for increasing the potency of SE, the only evidence- based practice for improving work in this ..

..to majority as well as to minority groups involve the loss of human and financial resources as the result of unemployment, poverty, crime, drugs, ill-health, and personal, social and family dysfunction (see Bowser & Hunt, 1981; ..

..Alcohol consumption may also be influenced by macroeconomic conditions. Local or national downturns raise unemployment, reduce job security, and decrease earnings. The resulting effects on drinking are ambiguous...

..will create measures of social and built environments using geodata from publicly-available Census, business, unemployment, and medical facility databases and incorporate these measures into a GIS with geocoded cancer incidence and ..

..In the social environment, many American Indians are living in conditions of extreme poverty, with high unemployment and lower educational attainment, adding further weight to the physical and financial burdens of childhood ..